My mother wants her bushy triangle left just above her lips and the rest shaved so my father doesn’t see that she has smooth lips. I sit back down o... my stool and I guide my mother’s hand over one of her fanny lip so she can pull it taught and I clip most of the hair away. The clippers buzzing like a vibrater across her skin as her bushy fanny hair falls to the floor. She keeps her bikini line trimmed so it’s not too overgrown, we swap sides and it looks better already.My mother seems happy. " He grinned I don't know if he had been wearingvampire fangs at the store and I had been too pre-occupied to notice ofnot but he was wearing them now, just caps that fit over his caninesextending and exaggerating them.I didn't really know what to say in response so I turned myself sideways,since the layout of the bathroom and the three stalls left just enoughroom for one person to walk between the wall and the stall doors.Shannon turned sideways to pass me but as we were passing each other. The stone shaft around the city had now been replaced with a swirling sea of molten rock, as if New York had been plopped right into the middle of a lava lamp. The city had literally burned through the Earth’s crust and was passing through the mantle. The only thing that kept New York from being instantly burned to a crisp was the fact that it was already technically separated from the physical universe of Cinereo.“Time is running out…” Baltoh muttered before laying his head back down on the. ? He smiled and the dog seemed to nod inagreement.?May 17, 1995, Dear Hortense.? Soft flowing script; cursive like thekind they used to teach in school; even if she hadn?t included her ownname, it would have been understood immediately that it was written by awoman, as feminine as it appeared. He smiled only a bit and sighed.?He came today. So sad. I don?t know what to say. I can?t imagine achild being more miserable and yet as kind as can be. He even thanked mefor letting him help. I suppose I.